Some examples of Israel and Jewish Digitisation Projects

Dov WinerIsrael MINERVA Coordinator

Director - eJewish.infoDeveloping Jewish Networking Infrastructures

an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel

Some examples of Israel and Jewish Digitisation Projects

Section 11. Policies of Cultural and Scientific Heritage Digitization and Preservation

http://www.minervaisrael.org.il [email protected] http://www.ejewish.info

Jerusalem Archaeological Park back

http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp






Early Islamic





Crusader Period



National Photo Collection


http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/exhibitions/index_exhibitions.html


• Wide digitization project and several online exhibitions

• Digitized 2,000,000 pages of testimony in 20 languages

• 100,000 photographs

• Deep Terminological Development

Yad Vashem – Holocaust Memorial Authority


Jewish National and University Library


• The David and Fella Shapell Foundation

• National Sound Archives – 1,700 hours already available

• Holy Land Maps –Jerusalem maps digitized and accessible

• Albert Einstein Archives

• Communal Registers of Jewish Communities

• Early Hebrew Press – First six large format newspapers



Collaborative projects

Ketubbot

Marriage contracts from 8 collections

Talmudic Manuscripts full manuscript of the Mishna

several tractates of the Babylonian Talmud



Deep Jewish Content

Jewish Databases and Digital Repositories

Texts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Pictures, Video, Music,

Multimedia, Films


Responsa: The pioneer digitisation Project


Central Zionist Archives


• Central Zionist Archives digitization– 4 million documents

– 250,000 photographs

– 8,000 Keren Kayemet maps

– 3,000 posters

• The Jewish Agency for Israel

– eJewish.info Initiative for Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures

– Department of Education units for ICT in Education and Contact Center (Distance Education)

– P2P initiatives for Jewish Museums and Theater

National Institutions: Jewish Agency, WZO, Keren Kayemte


Ben Gurion Archives


Diaspora Museum Collections


Israel Labor Party Archives


US Holocaust Memorial Museum


Harvard College Library JUDAICA Library

Area Studies Department

Initiative for Harvesting and Archiving Israeli Websites for Research


10 Years of Jewish Internet Networking achievements and problems

Extraordinary expansion of connectivity for individuals, families and institutions

Most of the activity is inter-personal: mail exchanges, chats, forums and

distribution lists About 8-9,000 Jewish Web sites

The sites are focused on specific subject matters: a given locality, an institution or denomination, an interest group – age, observance, gender, politics back

http://www.jafi.org.il/


Alexa’s Ranking of Web Sites Rank Links

Walla http://walla.co.il 477 868

Haaretz English http://www.haaretzdaily.com 1,627 2,735

Jerusalem Post http://jpost.com 1,189 5,052

Haaretz (Hebrew) http://haaretz.co.il 2,832 2,110

JDate http://jdate.com/jdDefault.asp 3,829 305

Israel's Business Arena

http://globes.co.il 5,194 1,757

KOL-ISRAEL.COM Radio

http://kol-israel.com 10,867 193

Israel Insider http://web.israelinsider.com 17,675 128

Snunit http://snunit.k12.il 18,157 884

Kol Israel Reshet Bet http://bet.iba.org.il 18,553 235

http://walla.co.il/

http://walla.co.il/

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/

http://jpost.com/

http://haaretz.co.il/

http://jdate.com/jdDefault.asp

http://globes.co.il/

http://kol-israel.com/

http://web.israelinsider.com/

http://snunit.k12.il/

http://bet.iba.org.il/

http://bet.iba.org.il/

http://www.jafi.org.il/


JewishGen http://jewishgen.org 20,936 1,650

Yenta http://yenta.email.net 21,062 46

ADL http://adl.org/adl.asp 24,610 2,468

Jewish Virtual Library

http://us-israel.org/jsource 29,037 1,875

Orthodox Union http://ou.org 32,593 1,244

Shamash http://shamash.org 37,109 2,670

Jewish Street http://jewishstreet.com 41,653 115

Project Genesis http://torah.org 45,393 1,051

Jewish Community Online (AOL)

http://jewish.com 47,474 1,081

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

http://ushmm.org 49,025 3,254

http://ou.org/

http://ou.org/

http://shamash.org/

http://jewishstreet.com/

http://torah.org/

http://jewish.com/

http://ushmm.org/


UAHC (Reform) http://uahc.org 49,756 994

Simon Wiesenthal http://wiesenthal.com 51,402 1,774

United Synagogue http://uscj.org 55,659 1,002

Department of Education, JAFI

http://jajz-ed.org.il/new.html 56,979 865

MAVEN http://maven.co.il 62,163 1,324

Amalnet http://www.amalnet.k12.il/ 74,421 409

back


Thank you for your attention !

Contact: Dov Winer, DirectorProgram for the Development of Jewish Networking

Infrastructuresan initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel

P.O.Box 92 Jerusalem 91000 [email protected]: +972.2.6202992 fax: +972.2.6204194http://www.ejewish.info/

Some examples of Israel and Jewish Digitisation Projects

Documents

Transcript of Some examples of Israel and Jewish Digitisation Projects